"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Vacations

The two best vacation trips I ever took were to Hannibal, Missouri (Mark Twain country) and Spillville, Iowa (where Dvorak spent a summer). When my mother heard about the latter vacation, she pitied my daughter and said, "Other kids get to go to Disneyland; she gets to go to Spillville." If you ever get to go to Spillville, stay here.